Purpose Description: The reading for today covers heavily the distinction between Rhetoric and Dialectic–particularly how Aristotle worked to distinguish the two. My response is an attempt to comment on that distinction and to further establish rhetoric’s unique qualities in the eyes of Aristotle. Response: In order to strengthen the concept and further develop rhetoric’s importance […]

Scope/Purpose Description: I wanted to speak to the rhetoric that surrounds each of us at VMI in this reading response. Rhetoric surrounds us heavily at VMI–even though we often do not easily recognize it. It is engrained in every member of our community, and our traditions would certainly not be as memorable or meaningful without […]